• Kwakigra@beehaw.org
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      And the Nintendo of my childhood was responsible for pretty much every anti-consumer practice and cultural trend concerning videogames during my childhood:

      Inventing the idea that videogames are toys only for little boys only for marketing purposes. Betraying and exploiting established relationships with developers. Screwing over partners on disc technology and reversing course to limit technology to be under their control. Supporting Jack Thompson throughout his campaign to ban all videogames with any adult content at all. Lawsuit after lawsuit after lawsuit to hold the entire industry back. The list goes on.

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        you forgot:

        • making it mandatory for any 3rd party game to stay exclusive to the NES for 2 years, essentially giving themselves a monopoly
        • suing to make cheating devices like the game genie illegal (they failed, thankfully)
        • suing to make game rentals illegal (they also failed)
        • introducing the lockout chip, normalizing walled gardens on consoles, as well as region locking
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      b-b-but don’t you get it! i can justify the scam cost to myself with mental gymnastics!!! I have to buy the Switch 2. It can not be avoided, I must buy the Switch 2. I have to.

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      It’s always been this way with Nintendo, even way back. I did a backlight mod to an original DMG-01 Gameboy yesterday and they used tri-wing screws to secure the case, those things suck and are only used to keep consumers out.